Hitting Coordinator Kansas City Royals - Drew Saylor 

In this episode of Patrick Jones Baseball, I interview Drew Saylor, Hitting 

Coordinator for the Kansas City Royals. Drew Saylor shares his baseball history, including 

working with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies organizations, he discusses the ways he has become a better hitting coach, ways to improve communication with players, the importance of the mental game, and his hitting philosophy. 

Episode Highlights:

• Drew Saylor shares his background in baseball. 
• Drew really appreciates how supportive his wife has been in his career.  
• While he was a manager, was he a hitting coach as well?  
• What caught him off guard when he became a manager? 
• Drew found he became a better hitting coach when he became a manager.   
• How does he guide his players in their mental game?   
• Has he had experiences where he has had to trust his coaches to implement what he wants the players to execute? 
• How can you get better about finding out what players need?    
• We are very adaptable as human beings.  
• What did his role entail with the Pittsburgh Pirates? 
• Create a positive team environment. 
• How does he get his team fired up? 
• What is his hitting philosophy?  
• When he is working with a player, what would be a typical cage session be like?  

3 Key Points:

• Get to know how players perceive things and customize training to their needs.  
• One thing COVID-19 has taught us is that essentially human beings need physical contact and spatial closeness to one another. 
• Supplying the needs of his players has helped Drew Saylor learn more about who he is in the process. 

Tweetable Quotes:

• (Wife) “She knows the demands and the sacrifice. I say this a lot to our coaches, we don’t make the sacrifice when we sign up for this job. It’s our wife and our kids that sign up for that sacrifice.” – Drew Saylor  
• “I really absorbed myself into the hitting space and I wanted to learn, not even just the teaching methodologies, but sequencing and tunneling.” – Drew Saylor
• “You can’t expect a player to know how to handle failure if the only time he handles failure is at 7pm, because of the heightened sense of these stats count, this is how I’m being evaluated.” – Drew Saylor

Resources Mentioned:

• patrickjonesbaseball.com
• Drew Saylor Social Media: Linkedin Twitter

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